Practical Technology

Hulu says that it’s “free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, etc.” Unless, though, you own a Sony PlayStation 3. If that’s you, you’re out of luck.
PS3 users discovered starting over the June 27th weekend that when they tried to watch [...]

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The latest version of the Apple TV firmware, Apple TV 2.4, doesn’t have any major improvements, but it does include a few nice, new features and, from what I can see, gives the Apple TV a real performance kick.
First, the features. The one that I like the most is that when you’re looking over your [...]

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This just came in over the press-wire, and I’m already interested. Cisco has announced on June 23 that a new Linux powered router, the Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link, the WRT160NL is out.
At first glance that may not seem that interesting. But, this isn’t just a new Wi-Fi router with [...]

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f you visit MLB.com and look to see if you can watch baseball games over the Internet, you’ll be informed that you’ll need Windows or a Mac to watch them. Wrong. Any modern Linux desktop distribution will let you keep up with your favorite team.
The key is that MLB has dumped Microsoft’s Silverlight for its [...]

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Two Cow jokes started out as a spin from the introductory economic example of the limits of a barter society. For example, if you have two cows and want chickens, you need to find someone who’s willing to trade an awful of chickens for one cow, and that’s no way to make an omelet. [...]

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